Friday, November 26, 2010

Since today's the "official" start of the Christmas shopping season -- or at least it was when I was a kid -- I'd like to know if anyone has any gaming-related gift wishes for themselves or someone on their Christmas list. Other than volume 5 of The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, which isn't precisely gaming-related, I don't have any such wishes myself, but I'm sure at least some of you must. Please feel free to share them.

I'm hoping when I travel back to Fresno for Xmas I can find the box with all my old game books (B/X, PHB, DMG, TMNT) and modules, and then run my niece and nephew (11 and 8) through the Caves of Chaos for the first time. That would make the holiday.

Other than a g-rated group for my daughter and I to join, that plays all my favorite games? I'm still looking for a reasonably-priced copy of Chaosium's Trollpak. Also I'd like to replace some Call of Cthulhu books I've lost: Gaslight, Dreamlands, Arkham, Orient Express and Beyond the Mountains of Madness. And finally, I'm missing a couple of components to my Chaosium Thieves World set.

I already got a gift of sorts. At Thnaksgiving dinner last night, I brought my copy of Ars Magica 5th Edition along, and my niece immediately grabbed it. We ended up geeking over the rules for a while. Great kid, and I categorically refuse to believe she's almost old enough to drink.

I've got a couple of AM books on the wishlist, as well as a couple of titles from the WH40K Black Library, but this is going to be a very low budget Hanukkah for everyone. I've been told already that my gift is the San Francisco Giants tattoo that I swore I would get when the team won the World Series.

Ooh unfair James, my friends read this so I'll have to go for stuff that's just too expensive for anyone to buy me; mint Chaosium RQII copies of some of the classic supplements. Cults of Prax, Pavis, The Big Rubble, Borderlands, Griffin Mountain.

Updating my Amazon wish list for Christmas, I think I removed all the RPG related stuff. Nothing much out there is really tickling my fancy enough. Except for some of the OSR PDFs (and some older, otherwise out-of-print PDFs), but I usually buy those myself as I come across them.

Some bronze/copper and pearloid Gamescience dice would be welcome. As would some precision backgammon dice. (They tend to be very attractive six-siders, but are expensive. Precision with rounded corners isn’t easy.)

Some good (for me) RPG tools for my iPad would be welcome too, but that will probably have to wait (forever) until I get around to writing them myself. ^_^

Then there’s my “way out there” wishes: a copy of Dinky Dungeons and Spanish and Japanese copies of B/X D&D and classic Traveller.

The Wargamers Annual - Volume 2 - though a little birdie at my local Internet bookshop prevented me from placing an order yesterday as he told me that there was already one on its way to my address. Bless her.

Dungeon Magazine #149, Random esoteric creature generator, Pathfinder Chronicles: Misfit Monsters Redeemed, All Flesh Must Be Eaten and Dice :). I had Trail and Call of Cthulhu on my list, but our DM decided to go with Call, and bought me a pdf, so they came off the list.

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